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May 28, 1830Chapter CXLVIIIAn Act to provide for an exchange of lands with the Indians residing in any of the states or territories, and for their removal west of the river Mississippi.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That it shall and may be lawful for the President of the United States to cause so much of any territory belonging to the United States, west of the river Mississippi, not included in any state or organized territory, and to which the Indian title has been extinguished, as he may judge necessary, to be divided into a suitable number of districts, for the reception of such tribes or nations of Indians as may choose to exchange the lands where they now reside, and remove there; and to cause each of said districts to be so described by natural or artificial marks, as to be easily distinguished from every other ...What does the phrase Indian title has been extinguished describe in the context of the document

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The document provided is the legal mean with the help of which the Government of the United States can forcefully removed the Indians form their own lands. This act is also known as the Indian Removal Act. It forms the basis for the reservation which is present today.

Prior to this act, the Indian nation worked as an autonomous nation and they were given the liberty to remain autonomous if they wanted to move. Most of the tribes were forced to leave their land but were compensated with money. All this led to Trail of Tears.